702 Mr. F. H. Taylor on the Culicidae of Australia. 
Chrysoconops littleri, n. sp. 
Head clothed with pale scales. Abdomen and legs black, un- 
banded. Wings with brown scales. 
. Head black, clothed with creamy yellow narrow-curved and 
thin yellowish brown upright forked scales with white flat lateral 
ones, border bristles brown with a fairly thick tuft of pale golden 
ones overhanging the eyes from the centre; eyes black, clypeus 
black; palpi black scaled with numerous black hairs; proboscis 
black; antennae black, verticillate hairs black, basal lobes pale 
yellow. 
Thorax chestnut brown, clothed with pale golden narrow-curved 
scales, chaetae black, lateral ones densest above the roots of the 
wings; prothoracic lobes prominent, brown, clothed with brown 
narrow-curved scales and bristles; metanotum brown; scutellum 
brown, clothed with pale golden narrow-curved scales, mid lobe 
with eight black border bristles, lateral lobes with four; pleurae 
pale brown, clothed with scattered pale flat scales and mixed black 
and pale bristles. 
Abdomen black, clothed with black scales with violet reflections, 
posterior border bristles pale golden, long, first segment densely 
clothed with long pale bristles; last segment densely clothed with 
pale golden bristles, venter apparently black scaled. 
Legs black scaled, unbanded; femora pale scaled beneath; 
apical tarsi with pale reflections; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with the costa black, sub-costal and first longitudinal veins 
with dark brown scales, remaining vein scales light brown; first 
fork-cell considerably longer and narrower than the second, base of 
the former nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter; stem 
of the first fork-cell about one-fourth the length of the cell, stem 
of the second one-third the length of its cell; anterior and anterior 
basal cross-veins about the same length, the latter three times its 
own length distant from the former; fringe brown. Halteres pale. 
Length 4°5 mm. 
Habitat. Tasmania, Mt. Arthur, near Launceston 
(F. M. Lnitler). 
Observations. A species easily distinguished from other 
Australian Chrysoconops, its nearest ally being C. nagra, 
Theob., from Angola. We have much pleasure in dedicat- 
ing it to its discoverer. 
DIxomMyYIA, n. g. 
Head clothed with flat scales with a broad stripe of narrow-curved 
and hair-like scales with broad upright fan-shaped ones with 
